This informal biweekly meet-up might be of interest to anybody in the NYC
area, sorry for the last minute nature.
You can also subscribe to a NYC-area Free Network Foundation list here:
http://freenetworkfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/nyc_freenetworkfoundation.org
-bryan
-- Forwar
short term practical wants:
- redundant git repository backup
- redundant crypto key backup (eg, "plan B" to regain access to other
servers/identity)
- "personal information" store: address book, calendering
- VPN/tor/ipv6/cjdns end node (as a gateway for other traffic)
- general purpose shell
The FUSE ("filesystem in userspace") library/module is implemented in
many/most *NIX operating systems, and would allow a specific on-the-fly
virtual file access like you describe to be implemented in a popular
programming language (bindings for python, ruby, etc). "Classic" FUSE
examples inc
As a potential solution to the never-ending recommended/supported hardware
"problem", i'm making some effort to either extend or duplicate the
"semantic wiki" at:
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Main_Page
to include non-wireless devices, environmental ratings, performance
benchmarks, kernel
As another example, Microsoft Research demonstrated frequency shifting of
commodity 802.11.bg radios to TV channels ("WhiteFi") as part of their
whitespace dynamic spectrum use research:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=73481
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects
General purpose "Configuration Management" seems to be a crucial component
of the FreedomBox software stack/distribution. It needs to be secure,
accessible (elegant user experience for diverse userbase), reliable,
robust, etc.
As I see it there are a few overlapping needs: a way to make conf
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Markus Sabadello wrote:
- Configuration Management.. There was a thread recently about Augeas,
Config::Model, UCI, DebConf
I will be at the hackfest in NYC tuesday through thursday (and maybe
monday afternoon). I'd like to get consensus and write up a proposal for a
conf
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
Bryan, thanks for sending this along. I don't have any answers, but
these are pretty fundamental questions.
Thanks for the reply!
Does anybody else have any guidance or insight? This is more than I want
to bite off on my own. In case this thread fel
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
Has anybody given thought to getting FreedomBoxes to send emails? I
thought I'd build out a quick win this weekend and add Friendica to the
plugserver setup scripts [0], but Friendica sends registration emails,
and there's no other way to deliver the reg
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Michael Williams wrote:
To add to what you said, I think we should definitely have fine
grained access control to system-wide configuration. The idea of a
shared server resource between individuals has been dawning on me, so
I really want a way for people to share their FBx
Spoke with James and a few others here at the OpenITP event, notes and a
rought plan are below. Some of this feels like reinventing the wheel; a
future/mature implementation might use:
D-Bus for message passing, PolicyKit for access control, Augeas for
read/write
or
building off u
Also, just to be explicit, this would provide process separation, but does
not address local user authentication or access control. Eg, in this
scheme plinth would have permissions to edit all configuration files and
would need to authenticate users for access control on it's own (it
doesn't
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
CryptoCat (secure chat):
CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development)
End client XMPP+OTR clients plus Prosody running on the device? If
CryptoCat as-is is desirable, the server-side PHP code is <500 lines
including comments and could be ported quic
Forgot to update this list, but I submitted a pull request to the Plinth
repository:
https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth/pull/2
The core of the changes I made are also available in a separate
repository:
https://github.com/bnewbold/exmachina
http://git.bnewbold.net/?p=exmachina.git;a
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
Bryan, is this ready for me to add to the weekly images? This might
solve FreedomBuddy's OpenVPN service control issues.
It's waiting for review/consensus/merge, but at this point there have been
no complaints so it's probably good to go? Does Plinth
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Nick Daly wrote:
Does anybody have thoughts on logical error handling behavior? Some of the
existing Plinth code (eg, hostname changer) would try to revert changes when
they failed; i'm not sure if that behavior should be implemented at the
exmachina (library/wrapper) level
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote:
I should probably give the code a one-over and include a HOWTO; I'll do this
tomorrow (tuesday).
Added a HOWTO and some other improvements; updated the pull request:
https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth/pull/2
-bryan
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
Freedom Maker: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker
- The weekly image has wireless again!
Does wireless work "out of the box" for anybody?
I booted with this week's image, and the Marvell .bin firmware files seem
to have been fetched and put
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Nick Daly wrote:
Are you building your own image or using the published ones? In
either case, only images built from the "shiny" branch will have
wireless enabled, and then only when you plug an ethernet cord into
the eth1 slot during the first boot. The /etc/init.d/first
[follow up to RE: FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0819 Available]
I've posted the method I used to get my dreamplug (older 8868 WiFi
chipset) working as an accesspoint using the libertas_uap/uap8xx kernel
module:
https://github.com/bnewbold/dreamplug-libertas_uap
This repo includes
It worked fine for me using the wheezy package, at least with tracd...
===
root@freedombox:~# uname -a
Linux freedombox 3.2.0-3-kirkwood #1 Mon Jul 23 22:36:47 UTC 2012 armv5tel
GNU/Linux
root@freedombox:~# apt-get install trac
[...]
The following NEW packages will
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Nick Daly wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Nick Hardiman
wrote:
Is it a kind of update on this 2010 post for a guruplug?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00081.html
yes.
As noted in the LICENSE file, this is all very dirty and
potentially infringant
[freedom-maker]source/install.sh still seems to have 3.2.0-3-kirkwood
hardcoded in?
https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker/blob/master/source/install.sh
I would grep around, there seems to be lots of hardcoding in
freedom-maker.
--bryan
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote:
The th
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Bdale Garbee wrote:
JOSEFSSON Erik writes:
Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to
get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx?
I'm working on it. The short answer is creating a suitable metapackage
or three and then restructuring
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